The City Council Public Works Committee will submit bids for a new traffic signal and intersection improvements at Chestnut and Garrison to the full Council without recommendation at next Tuesday’s regular Council meeting. A motion by member Charlie Bastin to reject both of the bids submitted for the project drew a 2-2 vote from the Committee.

The project is included in the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2000/2001 for approximately $100,000. Bids were substantially higher than expected. The low bid from APAC was $155,324 and G&G Construction bid the job at $187,640.

Engineering Department Director Joe Butler told the Committee that after seeing how high the bids were, work that could be completed by the City Street Department and CW&EP, and minor design changes were taken out. The resulting negotiated price from APAC was $124,000. The same specs were than shown to G&G with a resulting bid from them of $116,917. Butler recommended the final low bid. Committee Chair Bill Fortune and Bastin wanted to rebid the job with new specs. McPheeters and Johnson voted no.

No Apparant Reason Plays Mercantile 5th Friday Special.

news release

The bluegrass band, "No Apparent Reason," will play a special program at Main Street Mercantile in Carthage at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 30. Called the 5th Friday Special, the program will benefit Carthage United Singles. "No Apparent Reason" is a regular at Main Street Mercantile and plays mountain music, folk and traditional sing-along music.

The publis is invited to the 5th Friday Special. There will be a $5 admission charge.

For more information call Carthage United Singles at 417-358-6263.

Membership Show 2000 Opening Tonight!!

by Robin Putnam, artCentral

We have lots of things going on around here !! It’s soooo great to see all this forward progress !! And the really neat thing about it is one or two steps forward leads to a few more steps forward and so on and so on .........before you know it there has been tons accomp-lished and in a fairly short amount of time !!

Our pottery room has been used steadily since we opened it !! We still have to get the last wheel in and finish putting the safety gizmo on the kiln but there are three wheels available now !!

Since our early sculpture sessions are full we are going to expand and move into the drawing session time slot. So if you want to do sculpture with a model you are welcome to come on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30.

There are a few sculpture stands available and you’ll have to bring your own clay and tools. Call us and leave us a message with your name and phone number so we can contact you if there are any changes.

We have five members who submitted their artwork for a juried exhibition in Springfield at the Juannita K Ham-monds Hall for the Per-forming Arts. And how lucky can you get ??...........all five had their work accepted !! That show will run through July 27th !! We offer our congratulations !! Artists and their accepted works are: Jorge Leyva, a painting and a terra cotta sculpture, Penny Wilkinson, a marble scul-pture, Debbie Reed, a print, Jane Kleindl, 2 etchings and last but not least Robin Putnam, an Indiana lime-stone sculpture and a mixed media drawing.

Our Membership Show 2000 has it’s opening reception tonight from 6-8. See you here !!

Don’t forget to register for artCamp 2000 !! Twelve days filled with FUN !!! Twelve dollars per day, per student. Some of the classes are a full 2 days to be able to complete the project so keep that in mind when signing up !!

We have left some registration forms with class information on the front door for your convenience !!

More.......next week. 358-4404. 1110 E 13th & www. ozarkartistscolony.com under organizations. Our hours are Tues. - Sat. 9am - 3pm.

Sometimes I just don’t get it.

On occasion over the last several years that I’ve been puttin’ thoughts down ever’ day in this column, someone will ask me exactly what that Jake was supposed ta mean. Usually they have an interpretation that I hadn’t even considered. Usually their twist is more interestin’ than anything I could come up with. Sometimes they are the catalyst for another Jake or two if I’m lucky.

‘Course the mistake some make is takin’ the ramblin’s in this column a little too serious. That happens ever’ now and then when an amateur attempts ta find some humor in a particular situation.

My suggestion is, if ya read a Jake ya don’t understand, call one of the sponsors ya see here. At least let ‘em know you appreciate them makin’ this confusion possible.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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Oak Street health & herbs

I finally figured out what is wrong with the weather....there is no interaction with kids and their weather games. If it had been raining on our summer for this many days we would have been out in it holding hands and going in a circle saying, "rain rain go away come again another day!" Suppose some kids are just happy that it is raining so there is no chance they will be sent outside to play instead of sitting in front of their computers.

What are your kids doing this summer? If you don’t have a garden space to teach the food growing process, try teaching the children to grow and care for their own sprouts. It is a fun, quick rewarding process and they can eat their results and have the fulfillment of contributing to the family meals. You can purchase seeds and lids which fit over regular fruit jars at your health food store and make it an easy process. Alfalfa sprouts are very mild and excellent added to any salad or sandwich. There are broccoli and mustard, the five flavor mix and more. One must make SURE to use sprouts especially for sprouting and eating. NO treated seeds, and be sure to keep the sprouts rinsed and clean.

Eating raw foods is especially beneficial as they contain enzymes which we do not get from cooked foods. If you are one who gets upset stomach or colon from roughage, it is possible to add an enzyme especially for plant fibers as one does of they cannot drink milk or eat beans without getting gas. If you have been without truly fresh foods for some time, start slowly and work your way up. When one is bettering the diet, sometimes when the "stuck" stuff and less healthy cells are sluffed and replaced with healthier ones, a person may feel a little uncomfortable for a few days, but it is worth it. Kind of like climbing Mt. Everest, the going is not easy, but the view from the top must be incredible!